Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's soccer team loses to the University of North Carolina--the No. 1 ranked team in the country--in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament...
...heavily recruited as a basketball player coming out of DeMatha Catholic High School, a school near Washington D.C. that is legendary for its hoops history. A high school All-American, Brown decided to attend Harvard, shunning full-ride scholarships at college juggernauts such as the University of North Carolina and UCLA, which was riding high on a tide of nine NCAA championships in 10 years under the legendary coach John Wooden...
...action suit filed by habitual gamblers claiming the machines violate the state's constitutional ban on lotteries; the decision turns on the definition of a lottery, which is considered a game of chance (as players in last week's $195 million Powerball game will testify). The justices in South Carolina have to decide whether video poker involves more skill than luck...
...chance this November to overturn a plan for three Detroit casinos. But much of the new resistance has focused on video gambling, which experts have called the crack cocaine of wagering because of its quick and deep hold on players. Four years ago, a statewide referendum in South Carolina showed lopsided support for video gambling. But in a survey conducted by the Mason-Dixon polling firm last December, 47% of respondents said video gaming should be done away with and an additional 24% said they favored regulating it more tightly. Contributing to this mood shift is a growing collection...
...South Carolina, the industry is trying to make its case over the airwaves; it poured more than $1 million into TV ads during the spring legislative session. That has only energized backers of the ban. "If we can't stop them now, they're going to own the political system within a couple of years," said Richard Gergel, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs suing the industry in the supreme court case. Jennings, for one, says the industry is paying the price for reaching too far into gamblers' pockets. His renovated Victorian law office in Bennettsville stands across from a bingo...